Ellie White has been trying really hard since 1986. She holds an MFA from Old Dominion University. Her volume of work includes poetry, creative nonfiction, and the comic strip "Uterus & Ellie." Ellie's writing has appeared in Painted Bride Quarterly, Breakwater Review, The Columbia Review, and many other journals. She has published two other poetry chapbooks, Requiem for a Doll (ELJ Publications, 2015) and Drift (dancing girl press, 2019), as well as a hybrid memoir, and for too long after (Unsolicited Press, 2019). Her work has won an Academy of American Poets College Poetry Prize, a Best of the Net nomination, two Pushcart Prize nominations, and was a finalist for the Meridian Short Prose Prize. She is currently a reader at Muzzle Magazine, where she has served on staff since 2016.
